Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region

ISBN-13: 9781107182547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 329 str.

David Braund

Opis

Pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

Spis treści

Introduction: aims, contexts and connectivity; 1. Crimean Parthenos, Artemis Tauropolos and human sacrifice; 2. Crimean Parthenos in Greece, Anatolia and the Mediterranean world; 3. Artemis of Ephesus in the Bosporan Kingdom; 4. Bosporan Isis; 5. The 'Mistress of Apatouron': Aphrodite Ourania and the Bosporan Apatouria; 6. Epilogue: Artemis, Aphrodite and Demeter.